2,500 participants from more than 90 countries are getting ready to gather at the 40th World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland where world leaders hope to develop plans to “rebuild” the world economic system.

China disclosed the other day that its foreign exchange reserves had increased to about $2.4 trillion in 2009.

There is speculation that the Israeli and U.S. governments are misleading the public about the status of talks aimed at creating a Palestinian state and that negotiations are much farther along than what has been reported in the world media.